Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.